Sand Plates at Lake Michigan dunes, photo by Cari Draft

My friend and fitness guru, Cari Draft, walked out at P.J. Hoffmaster State Park in Michigan today with her group of adventurous spirits and took this picture.  Nature never ceases to impress and amaze us.  I am also including a greyscale of the image, which I think also looks very nice.

Michigan snowstorm 12/23/22

Seems like everyone is obsessed with the snowstorm right now.  I took this video about an hour ago (noon.)  It wasn’t really that bad out then, but in the past hour the snow has really started having a fit out there.  I  will take another video of now and add it before posting this. To…

Getting Fit — Bike Ride 082222

Today’s ride was out on part of the North Bank Trail but mostly on the Spoonville and Idema Explorer’s Trails.  It took awhile to recover from the distance (30+ miles) and terrible sunburn of the last ride.  This ride was about half as long and I was spray-saturated with SPF.  I added a little more…

Acknowledgment

image link that goes to youtube video this is from We’d been driving north for a few hours, loosely along Lake Michigan, but only catching glimpses of it through dense trees.  We were headed to Traverse City, where the magnificence of the combination of forest, hills, vineyards, and water makes for nature in complete splendor. …